Can't Make This Up

[posted by Callimachus]

As my reporter friend points out, this story is amusing on a number of levels.

• Phone company blithely rips off old woman for $14,000.
  
  
• Editor has to get reporter to describe exactly what a rotary-dial telephone is, for modern readers.
  
  
• Reporter screws it up.
  
  
• Old woman's name is E.Strogen
  

Pick your starting point on this one.